7,460 rumour claims automatically extracted from 19th-century British newspapers, plus a
200-row hand-adjudicated evaluation sample.
The source material is the British Library's Heritage Made Digital newspaper collection —
the same corpus published as biglam/hmd_newspapers.
PRESTO (Pattern-based Rumour Extraction with Semantic Tracking) applies dependency-pattern
matching to find and structure rumoured… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/presto-rumour-claims.
